* Steve, the NYT notices Racial Identity, and Its Hostilities, Are on the Rise in American Politics.
I’m not sure if I’m imagining a tone to the article but I get a sense of disapproval inherent in the reporting regarding the failure of white Americans to transform into the New Soviet Man, as seen by the NYT elite. This likely arises from the unexamined positions incorporated into the writing. Here’s an example.
Such voters are nostalgic for the country they lived in 50 years ago, when non-Hispanic whites made up more than 83 percent of the population. Today, their share has shrunk to 62 percent as demographic change has transformed the United States into a nation where others have a shot at political power.
Well, how did that happen? Was it like a hurrican hitting the coast or did this demographic transformation come about because of policy choices?
Their fear is understandable. In general, the concerns of Hispanic and black American voters are often different from those of white voters. But the reaction of whites who are struggling economically raises the specter of an outright political war along racial and ethnic lines over the distribution of resources and opportunities.
Why do blacks and Hispanics like Big Government? Because Big Government is the enforcer in the racial spoils game, where wealth and opportunity are taken from whites and trasnferred to NAMS. That’s not a problem for the NYT so long as whites are willing to be tax farmed but once they resist, then we’re heading into a racial war. I suppose that when the Nazis rolled into Norway and didn’t face Norwegians in a house to house war that there was actually no war taking place, never mind the Nazi war on Norway, so long as Norway wasn’t taking the fight to Germany there was no war. Or something.
The article does a good job of documenting how diversity destroys communities but the writer leaves a lot of points out of the article such that the current regime cannot be scrutinized, why is “Diversity our strength” when the points he cites demonstrate otherwise? One thing is clear though, whites are the culprits for supporting Trump.
* When the UK law criminalising homosexual acts between consenting adults was repealed in 1967, the speeches in favour of the bill were basically “These are sad people who can’t help their inclinations, it’s cruel to lock them up if no one’s harmed“. Opponents warned in apocalyptic terms that homosexuals wouldn’t be content with legality but would in time demand full cultural equality – and those in favour said “don’t be ridiculous – that’ll never happen“.
But not even the most fervent speaker on either side could have imagined that less than 50 years later a Tory MP (and chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee) would make a speech in the house about how he regularly liked to inhale a chemical (which relaxes the anal sphincter), and how banning said chemical was “fantastically stupid“.
